American forces shot down three one-way attack drones near commercial ships in the Red Sea on Friday, after striking four drones on the ground in Yemen the day before, the US military said. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been targeting shipping for months and their attacks have persisted despite repeated American and British strikes aimed at…
Gaza truce talks were under way in Paris on Friday, in what appears to be the most serious push for weeks to halt the fighting in the battered Palestinian enclave and see Israeli and foreign hostages released. A source briefed on the ceasefire talks, who could not be identified by name or nationality, said talks…
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Friday dismissed the opposition’s demand for providing at least 200 units of free electricity to the poor and emphasised that electricity is already being supplied to consumers at highly subsidised rates. The Bihar Chief Minister made the remark in the assembly during a debate on budget allocation for the energy…
The Leader of the Opposition in the Assam Assembly, Debabrata Saikia, on Friday submitted two petitions to the Speaker, requesting him to disqualify Congress MLAs Kamalakhya Dey Purkayastha and Basanta Das, who recently announced their “support to the government” without leaving the party. Leading a delegation of the Congress, Mr Saikia submitted the petitions to…
Yana Mir, a social activist and a journalist from Jammu and Kashmir, was honoured in the UK Parliament with the Diversity Ambassador award. Ms Mir’s speech countering “propaganda” against Jammu and Kashmir is going viral, where she said she is “not a Malala Yousafzai”, the Nobel Peace Prize winner from Pakistan who has taken refuge…
The first American spaceship on the Moon since Apollo is “alive and well” following a drama-packed touchdown, the company that built it said Friday as it worked to download data and images from the uncrewed robot. Odysseus landed near the lunar south pole Thursday at 6:23 pm Eastern Time (2323 GMT), after a nail-biting final…
The Delhi High Court asked the AAP on Friday how a “ruling” political party could seek permission to hold a protest in the national capital when there was a prohibitory order in force against gatherings in view of ongoing farmers’ protests. Justice Subramonium Prasad, while hearing the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) petition challenging the police’s…
Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi will join the Bharat Jodo Nyaya Yatra on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad. According to party functionaries, from Moradabad, Priyanaka Gandhi will be travelling to Fatehpur Sikri via Amroha, Sambhal, Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Hathras, and Agra. Earlier this week, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, who was admitted to Sir Gangaram Hospital in…
Local villagers continued to protest in North 24 Parganas’s Bermazur village in Sandeshkhali on Friday as tensions continued to brew in the region that has been witnessing unrest for the last over 10 days. South Bengal Additional Director General, Supratim Sarkar and Deputy Inspector General of Barasat Range, Bhaskar Mukherjee reached the spot with their…
Rashtriya Lok Dal Chief Jayant Chaudhary on Friday asked the farmers protesting for minimum support price to exercise patience, saying a solution would definitely emerge. Mr Chaudhary appealed for restraint from “both sides” as he expressed his sorrow at the death of a young farmer on Wednesday during a farmer-police clash at the Khanauri border…